London: The 161st anniversary of American novelist Herman Melville’s landmark novel Moby-Dick is being marked with a white sperm whale looms on the background of the Google doodle homepages across the world.
- His life:Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet.
He was born in New York City on the 1st of August 1819.
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is a novel was written by Herman Melville, it was first published in 1851.
Moby-Dick is considered to be one of the Great American Novels and a treasure of world literature.
